Sökresultat för: Katherine Callen King
Achilles: Paradigms of the War Hero from Homer to the Middle Ages (Övrig)
avKatherine Callen King
ISBN: 9780520074071 - UTGIVEN: 1991-01-07The powerful portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles presented in Homer's "Iliad" imbued a particular soldier with transcendent value, linking 'soldier' with 'hero' in Western culture. Tracing Achilles' appearances in the works of poets, generals, philosophers, priests, and patriots, Katheri[...]
Ancient Epic (Häftad)
avKatherine Callen King
ISBN: 9781118255346 - UTGIVEN: 2012-02-29Ancient epics remain a fount of inspiration for poets, dramatists, and musicians not only because they tell good stories in an aesthetically beautiful way, but also because they speak to contemporary hearts and minds still wrestling with timeless issues of human limitation, passion, violence, and us[...]
